Love is from within…

“God is love, and everyone that believes in him should love” — Me.

People talk about love, they talk about how much they care for each other. It is amazing how powerful ‘love’ is, but i hear ‘hate’ is more powerful (debate for another day). I am a big fan of love, i’ve enjoyed it over the years, i’ve seen what people do out of love, i’ve seen what people also do to ‘form loving’ (thanks to Yoruba Demons United).

My mum is my first contact with love, then my sisters, then the ladies that have been in my life, then the brothers i have made, i really have enjoyed being loved. Ofcourse, i have loved and still love.

Lets talk about the basic principle/rule of love: “love your neighbour as yourself”. its simple, you can only love your neighbour/gf/bf/husband/wife/family as much as you love yourself. I believe that ‘you can’t give what you don’t have’. i’ll like to drop my opinion about a few things i’ve seen around.

i love myself enough for me, i don’t need anyone to love me.

This makes me laugh sometimes. why? its the losers that always saying this. i have met a few people that believe this, they live it. why claim you love yourself enough to make yourself feel good? the hard truth is, ‘nobody loves you because you don’t love yourself’. #Gbam.

What do i mean? if i love myself enough, what will i be doing? how will people treat me if they see how much i love myself?

If i love myself, i’ll make myself better, i’ll focus on my career, finance, my faith, my appearance, i will do whatever will make me a better person. so, if i’m fat (not chubby) and i’m not watching what i eat and working out to get a healthy body, i don’t love myself and nobody else will love me.

Some people (spelt hypocrites) will go out of their way to do things for others, things they will not do for themselves, and they’ll say its ‘love’!!

Putting people first is useless when you have not positioned yourself to be there for them. someone that wants you to become better must have done same for his/herself before or be doing it in parallel with you.

‘Look at the cloth on the person that promises to clothe you’ — Yoruba proverb.

Treat yourself with love and see how people respond to you.